WoRMS taxon details
Acropora kenti (Brook, 1892)
207111 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207111)
accepted
Species
Madrepora (Polystachys) kenti Brook, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora kenti (Brook, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207111 on 2026-01-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]
basis of record Faure, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 203: 1-26. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Faure, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 203: 1-26. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 259 [details]
additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 423, Pl. 119 [details]
additional source Bridge, T.C.L., Cowman, P.F., Quattrini, A.M., Bonito, V.E., Sinniger, F., Harii, S., Head, C.E.I., Hung, J.Y., Halafihi, T., Rongo, T., Baird, A.H. (2024). A <i>tenuis</i> relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the '<i>Acropora tenuis</i>' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 202(1): zlad062., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062 [details]
additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 259 [details]
additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 423, Pl. 119 [details]
additional source Bridge, T.C.L., Cowman, P.F., Quattrini, A.M., Bonito, V.E., Sinniger, F., Harii, S., Head, C.E.I., Hung, J.Y., Halafihi, T., Rongo, T., Baird, A.H. (2024). A <i>tenuis</i> relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the '<i>Acropora tenuis</i>' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 202(1): zlad062., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) BMNH 29.6.8.203 [sic], geounit Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype (of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) BMNH 92.6.8.202, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropora kenti)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropora kenti)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
